NOTES gast. He also coached football Dick Allen, and track to losing records. 15010 Shell Point Leo was an outstanding coach ’51Blvd., Fort Myers, at Bethlehem High School. He FL 33908. (239) 482-5755 (H); just never saw much success at [email protected] LEHIGH DISPATCH Lehigh with any of the teams he This time I am writing about coached. Lehigh’s athletic spot- Tom Dowdell, one of the stal- Editor’s note: Welcome to Lehigh Dispatch, where you can find light was our wrestling program. warts of our class. Tom grew up out what your fellow alums are up to. Thanks to our dedicated It was led by Hall of Fame coach in Milton, Pa., which is just out- correspondents for the work you do to keep our extended Billy Sheridan. So much for that. side Lewisburg. At Milton High Lehigh community together. Please send Class Notes to your Since I last wrote this col- School he captained both the umn, I’ve had a nice phone call football and basketball teams. class correspondent, or, if unsure the class to which the news from Chuck Hafner’s widow, He chose to come to Lehigh applies, send to [email protected]. Carol. Since moving out of the based on its reputation as one Lehigh Valley, I miss the shoo- of the best engineering schools. fly pie that was popular among Upon arrival Tom enrolled in Dick MacAdams, 91; American W 83-76; Bucknell the Pennsylvania Dutch. Each mechanical engineering, joined 7066 Edinburgh L 83-85; Navy W 85-74; Boston time I came to a Lehigh game or Chi Psi and went out for basket- ’46 Drive, Lambert- University W 94-78; Lafayette a meeting, Carol would always ball. He gave up basketball after ville, MI 48144. (734) 856-1097 W/OT 93-86; Army W 75-70; bake one of her shoo-fly pies for his sophomore year in favor of (H); [email protected] Colgate L 62-84; Navy W 83-57; me, a much-appreciated delica- Glee Club and dating a girl from Greetings fellow ’46ers. I’m writ- Bucknell L 75-87; Boston Uni- cy by yours truly. Cedar Crest named Phyllis Sny- ing this while busily engaged in versity W 84-79; Army W 91-81; By the way, since my last col- der. Dating Phyllis and singing the basketball tournament known Holy Cross L 71-73; American W umn I got a phone call from one in the Glee Club lasted the rest as March Madness. It brings back 80-66; Loyola L 73-92; Army W of Ralph Graber’s offspring of his Lehigh tenure. After grad- memories to me of a few years ago 75-70; Bucknell L 75-97. informing me that Ralph’s uation, Tom and Phyllis were when Lehigh made the tour- Those two losses to Buck- widow, Lorraine, had passed married. Unfortunately, Phyllis nament as the 16th seed. Duke nell, a school with a smaller away. Ralph and his wife were died suddenly about a year and a University was the No. 1 seed and enrollment than Lehigh (but good friends of my wife, Gerry, half ago. Up until then, they lived Lehigh’s opponent. To everyone’s with a larger endowment), real- and mine and of Carol and in Fargo, N.D., for several years, surprise, Lehigh defeated Duke ly hurt us in league play. But the Chuck Hafner for many years. from where Tom wrote our class and went on to the second two victories against Lafayette In fact, Ralph gave the eulogy at column. He now lives with a round, where they were pitted were sweet! How did the Lehigh Chuck’s funeral. married daughter in Sequim, against Xavier, a Cincinnati team do in our graduation year I also had phone calls from Wash., a beautiful town near the college. Believe it or not, Lehigh of 1946? Burt Bartlett, who now lives base of the Olympic Mountains. was way ahead of Xavier at the Well, here are the results: in Washington, D.C. His voice During his early career, half. But unfortunately, Xavier Lebanon Valley L 62-63; Buck- sounded great, and his peppy talk Tom worked for several large eventually overcame the deficit nell L 32-53; F & M W 57-38; was a pleasure to listen to. corporations, managing to get and went on to win, and Lehigh Temple L 54-87; Gettysburg L The only other class member fired several times as a result of bowed out. It was a moment 38-61; Rutgers L 45-63; Bucknell I have contact with is Richard disagreements with his bosses. of glory. I was pleased with the W 69-44; Lebanon Valley W Smith. Richard and his wife The job changes caused the fam- winning record Lehigh has 52-45; Muhlenberg L 44-87; live in San Antonio, Texas. Our ily to move about the country. delivered this past year. They Muhlenberg L 37-73; Gettysburg communications with each Tom told me that they had lived didn’t win the Patriot League L 40-61; West Virginia L 52-69; other are via email. Well, it’s back in 10 places, including suburban Championship, but they were Rutgers L 49-65; Lafayette L to March Madness for me. I’ve Philadelphia; Louisville; Short right in the mix for that league. 48-73; F & M L 47-48; Lafayette become a Michigan State rooter. Hills, N.J.; Palos Verdes, Calif.; They went 20-11 overall and 12-6 L 28-61. Let’s see how they do. and outside Washington, D.C. At in the league. That year we split two games En avant! some point he decided that he Here’s how they did game with Bucknell. But we were needed to be his own boss. He by game: Monmouth W 85-61; trounced by Lafayette twice. Editor’s note: started a successful business as Miami (Fla.) L 62-83; Marist W The ’46 team was composed of To share your a sales representative, working 78-72; Princeton W 72-57; Siena just nine players: Jerome Waldor ’50 news or if you with firms in the cryogenics W 80-69; Kansas State L 58-77; ’47; James Schwartz ’48; Henry would be interested in becom- field. He is now retired from that, Arkansas State W 82-70; Yale Wetherhold ’48; Earle Compton ing your class’s correspondent, but not from playing the piano. L 87-97; Mount St. Mary’s W ’49; Richard Jones ’48; Robert reaching out to classmates and He has enjoyed this for most 85-78; St. Francis (Pa.) W 88-76; Belmonte ’47; Francis Rehnert writing a column three times a of his life, continuing to play in West Virginia L 68-78; Lafayette ’47; Spencer Wright ’48; Karl year, please contact the Alumni clubs and restaurants, earning a W 86-83; Loyola W 89-72; Holy Rehnert ’49. Office at 610-758-3069 or good second income. Cross W/OT 99-94; Colgate L 78- The coach was Leo Prender- [email protected] Everyone who has attended a 46 | LEHIGH BULLETIN NOTES class reunion in the last 25 years when you get to heaven. I watched putting this together is composed from Wendy that Phil passed or more will remember Tom’s the Cornell-Lehigh wrestling of Joe Workman, Tony Latour, away in January after a bout leadership in preparing us to match recently with my wrestling Tip Mowrer, Roger Inglese and with pneumonia. I then called march in the class parades. At our partner, Jack Platt ’53. I’ve still the late Bill Latshaw. Ben Reinoehl, who is having 60th, he taught us to march by the got all of my original joints. I was We all know our class is trouble with his hearing. For words to “Thanks for the Memo- water skiing up until four years getting smaller as we age near the that reason, he did not want to ries.” That year 21 of us paraded. ago when my legs gave out. I still 90s. It is with great sadness that I be in charge of our reunion. Ben We won the Over-50 Parade bike ride, albeit slowly. Go to the must report my close friend and retired from Air Products in Contest and were first runner-up gym three times a week. My wife classmate, Bill Latshaw, passed 2001 after a 40-year career with for the Harleman Award. has been gone for 15 years, but I away. Bill did our 50th yearbook the company. He then started At our 65th Reunion we had am soldiering on living in a condo with computer aid from Tom his own consulting company fewer than a dozen who made it. both here in Pennsylvania and in Shannahan; other classes have and is currently advising a firm We marched again, but not very Nantucket. In Nantucket I race copied since. He wrote the on the costs of developing and well. We were indoors at Grace in an 18-foot sailboat. Four of words to our parade songs over building a facility in Montana to Hall due to rain and had no time my six children live nearby, so I the years and attended many pump gas from one of the larg- or space to rehearse. The high have lots of support. I am proud Lehigh functions. I will miss est untapped fields in the coun- point of that reunion was our that one of my 13 grandsons took Bill and his wife, Sandy, as they try. Ben received an MBA from dinner in the Rathbone Room of Army ROTC and now is a first were close friends of Barbara’s Lehigh, and his father was also the University Center.